MONODOSE-LAMP® by genetic PCR solutions® is an innovative molecular diagnostic platform that enables rapid, reliable, and easy-to-use on-site genetic testing.
The ASFV MONODOSE-LAMP® comprises a series of specific targeted reagents designed for African swine fever virus detection by using LAMP. African swine fever virus is the causative agent of African swine fever. It is a large, double-stranded DNA virus which replicates in the cytoplasm of infected cells, and it is the only member of the Asfarviridae family. African swine fever virus is the only virus with a DNA genome transmitted by arthropods. The virus causes a haemorrhagic fever with high mortality rates in pigs, but persistently infects its natural hosts, warthogs, bushpigs and soft ticks of the {Ornithodoros} genus, with no disease signs. Some isolates can cause death of animals within as little as a week after infection. In all other species, the virus causes no obvious disease. African swine fever virus is endemic to sub-Saharan Africa and exists in the wild through a cycle of infection between ticks and wild pigs, bushpigs and warthogs.